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Lanza, Mauro (b. 1975, Venice). Italian composer, now resident in France, of chamber, vocal and electroacoustic works that have been performed in Europe.
Mr. Lanza studied composition and piano at the Conservatorio B. Marcello and musicology at Ca' Foscari University in Venice. He also attended workshops with many composers, including Brian Ferneyhough, Gérard Grisey and Salvatore Sciarrino, as well as the annual Cursus de Composition et Informatique Musicale at IRCAM in 1998-99.
Among his many awards are First prizes in the Valentino Bucchi in Rome (1996, for Gli occhi urgenti di Barbugno) and Carlo Gesualdo da Venosa in Potenza (1998, for Barocco) competitions. In addition, he was among the finalists in a competition for the realization of an opera project at the Aix-en-Provence Festival (1999) and at the Klangfiguren Projekt in Frankfurt am Main (2000). His works have been commissioned by and/or performed at many prestigious international festivals, such as the Europäischer Musikmonat (Basel), the Gaudeamus Muziekweek, Présences (Paris), the Strasbourg Musica, and the Venice Biennale, and have also been commissioned by the Cité de la Musique/Jeune Choeur de Paris, the government of France and IRCAM.
He has worked at IRCAM as a research composer and teacher since 1999.
Ricordi publishes most of his music written after 2003.
CONTACT INFORMATION
E-mail address: mauro.lanza@ircam.fr
Street address: Mr. Mauro Lanza, 11 rue Jean Nicot, F - 75007 Paris, France
Telephone: + 331 4705 8313
COMPLETE LIST OF WORKS
CHAMBER MUSIC: L'allegro chirurgo, tenor saxophone, 1996-97; La lumaca strutturalista (grazioso animaletto con il guscio a forma di spirale logaritmica) incontra il maiale tonale e il gigante consonante alla visita di leva, flute, piano, 1997; Aschenblume, flute (+ piccolo), clarinet, violin, viola, cello, double bass, piano, 2 percussion, 2001; Burger Time ou les tentations de St. Antoine, tuba, live electronics, 2001; The skin of the onion, flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano, percussion, 2002
CHORAL: Et exultate ei cum tremore (text from Psalm 2 [translated by Olivier Cadiot]), mixed chorus, 2003
VOCAL: Gli occhi urgenti di Barbugno (text by Penelope Bortoluzzi), soprano, flute (+ piccolo, alto flute), tenor saxophone (+ ocarina), bassoon, violin, viola, piano (+ harmonica), percussion, 1995; Erba nera che cresci segno nero tu vivi (text by Amelia Rosselli), soprano, live electronics, 1999-2000; Barocco (text by Amelia Rosselli), soprano, toy instruments (6 players), 1998-2003; Mare (text by Amelia Rosselli), soprano, toy instruments (6 players), flute (+ piccolo, bass flute), clarinet, trombone, violin, cello, double bass, piano, percussion, computer, 2004
ORGAN: Predella, 2003
(Last updated on April 28, 2004)
